HIC SVNT DRACONES
HIC SVNT DRACONESCreated and Performed by K.J. Holmes
September 9 - 16, 2014
Open studio/work in progress showings:
Friday, Sept 12, 3:30 - 5:00pm & 8:30 - 10:00pm
Sunday, Sept 14, 4:00 - 6:00pm
Monday, Sept 15, 6:00 - 8:00pm
chashama 461
461 West 126th Street
New York, NY 10027
HIC SVNT DRACONES is an installation/rehearsal/performance residency exploring a contemporary terra incognito through the mediums of dance, text, video and sound.
At open rehearsals, a viewer is subjected to various degrees of witnessing, from the distance of a more traditional point of view, to being implicated and invited into the actual environment, to being challenged as to why they are not more involved. Where is the entrance/exit into and from within our perceptions?
HIC SVNT DRACONES (HSD) comes from the 15th century cartographers’ term used to describe the interior of an unexplored, unmapped and undocumented continent. During the 19th century, this term disappeared from maps, since the coastlines and countries of the world had been fully explored, mapped, owned, fought over and reclaimed. HIC SVNT DRACONES is an entrance into the contemporary terra incognito of being human. Holmes explores the space between a physical sense of time, history and place, and emotional truths that are masked or unrevealed due to familial, social and cultural restraints.
Developing and performing HSD at Chashama in collaboration with artists Keith Biesack, Adam Kerbel, Kristopher K.Q. Pourzal, Charlie Rauh and Devika Wickremesinghe, they dig deeper into the edges between the personal and mythic, reason and passion, movement, thought and the world, and bring to relief the maps of illogical poetic narratives the body holds.
HIC SVNT DRACONES has been in development since 2012 through residencies with Movement Research (NYC), The Dragon’s Egg (Mystic, CT). Hanna’s Barn (Vashon Island, WA) and Studio Current (Seattle, WA).
About the Artist:
K.J. Holmes, dance artist, actor, singer and teacher, has collaborated with forerunners of dance improvisation Simone Forti, Karen Nelson, Lisa Nelson and Steve Paxton, poet Julie Carr, performer Keith Biesack, and trumpeters Roy Campbell Jr. and Dave Douglas, among many other artists. Her dances have been presented at venues including The Chocolate Factory Theater, Danspace Project, DTW, Movement Research at the Judson Church, The Kitchen, PS122, the Vision Jazz Festival. She teaches at NYU/ETW, Eugene Lang/New School and Movement Research and teaches and performs nationally and internationally. HIC SVNT DRACONES has been performed at the &NOW Poetry Festival Boulder Co, Movement Research at the Judson Church, The Carpenter Center/ Harvard University, Hanna Barn/ Vashon Island Wa, Studio Current (Seattle), the Center for Performance Research, School for the Art Institute of Chicago, Triskelion Arts and Heliopolis Gallery. K.J. has recently performed with Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, Mark Dendy, Lance Gries, Melinda Ring, and will be performing this fall in Xavier Le Roy’s Retrospective at MoMA PS1 as well as in Steve Paxton’s retrospective at DIA:BEACON.
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